60 GEOLOGICAL NOTES ON A SUPPOSED EARTHWORK
of six coffins during some excavations which had recently been
made near Harlow by the railway company. But these coffins, with
their contents, though apparently of ancient date, were found
(judging from the account given) in the cutting east of the Railway
Fig. i.—Portion of Six-inch Ordnance Map (41 Essex) of the Harlow District (with
additions), showing Position of the Supposed Mound. The Alluvial Flat is indicated
by the grey shading ; M is the Mound, and P indicates the Position of the Pond.
Station, near Harlowbury, while the earthwork I am now considering
is on the west.
The accounts given in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for 1821,
and in "Archaeologia" for the same year, are of about equal
length, and the lists of Roman or Romano-British antiquities found
are nearly identical, and evidently refer to the same collection.